Thank you. I swear the other responses seem to have taken me seriously.
But if I take your response and treat it seriously, wouldn't most of Hollywood's output fail copyright and DMCA standards? I'd argue that my life is more interesting than at least some of the stuff coming out of Hollywood.
This topic is timely, because I'm spec'ing out a new computer for the family for Christmas. In these dog days of the economy (national, local, and mine) I'm trying to keep the entry cost down. Besides, it will give me the chance to add parts over the next year or two.
Someday DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2 will be worthy targets for purchase. But today, only the Radeon 9700 is there, and I'm not spending that kind of money. So near term, the target is Doom3.
My price target is around $60, since I plan to replace it in a year or two when R300/NV30 features become affordable. ($150-range) But I don't want to wait until then before playing Doom3.
The Radeon 8500 cards are all above my range, so... Some Radeon 9000 cards are in my range. Some Radeon 8500LE cards are in my range.
Will these new drivers work for these cards? Will these cards (9000, 8500LE) play Doom3?
My backup plan has been a GeForce4MX-440, which is supposed to play Doom3 with reduced features and speed - not a preferred card.
I once heard something about someone wanting to try using one of those NASA solar-powered airplanes as a relay point. It's high enough up to be "equivalent" to a satellite and is able to fly in circles and act "geostationary". But at the same time, it's a lot lower, so the latency wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like an interesting compromise - scalable, too. (More bandwidth => more planes => more collision-avoidance algorithms)
The IRS? Wouldn't this be a good one in tracking down tax evaders.
Ordinary law enforcement? Obviously someone with any sort of transaction at a known head-shop must be handling illegal drugs.
Deranged crackers? After all, it's aggregated data, and could be useful for stalking, or other purposes.
Terrorist crackers? Find themselves, learn how they were found. Teach the next batch how to avoid those mistakes.
Collecting the data is bad enough. Creating this aggregate is even more dangerous. Making use of it for other than protection from terrorists seems to me to be downright unconstitional. Some would argue that the whole thing is. OTOH, now that it exists we're unlikely to be able to find out how extensive it is, or what uses are being made of it, terrorism related or not.
I don't think that's what got Prohibition repealed. It was more the way Prohibition got in the way of ordinary voting folks. Though at some point, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Mafia involvement, but it depends on how much money can be made by breaking the DMCA. At the moment, media piracy is a widespread, but low-level activity with few pinch points that can be made lucrative.
I fear that what it's really going to take is something like the following scenario: 1: The tech sector to begin climbing out of its funk. 2: Then we get hit by mandated DRM, and re-slump. 3: The rest of the economy follows into a double-dip. 4: *Somehow* we manage to place the blame for the second dip squarely on the DMCA and DRM.
>I've also learned that the business people know as little as the rest of us about where things are going. Thir guesses are never right. They might make some >good guesses about what market will do well, but its almost always for the wrong reasons.
If this is true, then why do they get paid so much? Whenever there is a gripe about excessive executive compensation, they're decried as Socialists. Well, I'm going to gripe about excessive executive compensation, because they're just not doing a good enough job to earn the high pay they're getting. If the "Captains of Industry" were really doing 7 and 8 figure jobs, the economy would be in better shape than it is. They wouldn't have been fooled by the dot-com bubble and wouldn't have landed us in the dot-com bust. They already keep an eye on their peers, and they should have forseen the current corporate accounting mess, and perhaps headed it off, or at least reduced its impact.
Am I asking for a lot? Yes. But then, 7 or 8 figures is a lot of pay. They should earn it. Instead they screw up, leaving people like us holding the bag.
Don't forget that this is on a processor with NetBurst Architecture, so it makes the Internet faster. Now with NetBurst AND HyperThread those web pages will be on your screen before you've clicked the button.
So pretend $1.77e8/quarter is a continuing loss rate. (I know it most likely isn't.)
With their $4e10 war chest they can subsidize the X box at this rate for about 56 1/2 years. I wonder if the copyright on Steamboat Willie will have expired by then.
Not me. I recognize that my 401K is a long-term thing, and I don't mess with it. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down. But in the long run, I seem to make out about the same as or slightly better than coworkers who constantly tweak theirs.
So you may not be talking about 401K owners themselves, but rather the folks who run the 401K for the companies - essentially more of the short-term thinkers we disparage.
I have VHS of both "The 5 Doctors" and "Shada". The "Shada" release I have wasn't part of any fancy souvenier set, just a tape. It appears to have the film they had, plus Tom Baker narrating through the missing parts.
After all, these are the days of corporate accounting fiascos. In the current clime, transparency is a thing to be admired, and this is about as transparent as you can get.
Feature it, it's the timely thing to do, as well as the right thing to do.
For that matter, Microsoft doesn't have much room to cast stones, and if transparency becomes an issue, one can always bring up their stock dilution through options, non-payment of dividends that stockholders are requesting while sitting on $40e9 of cash, and sometimes-questionable donations to charity that look like they generate more revenue than the donation.
The article doesn't mention anything about the secondary emission characteristics of this fabric.
Secondary emissions are a very real bane of shielding for interplanetary travel, due to the extremely high energies of cosmic rays. Even if you could launch lead shielding for a spacecraft, manageable thicknesses would cause secondary emissions that were even more dangerous to the occupants than the original cosmic rays.
They've tried a new type of radiation shielding on the ISS made of polyethylene that is supposed to block without creating secondaries, and I see that's part of this fabric. Unfortunately the new shields don't seem to be as effective as hoped.
Radiation is anticipated to be a big problem on a Mars mission. IIRC, the radiation exposure will have a cancer risk equivalent to a lifetime of smoking.
But you really know to be scared of cosmic rays if they make rapping noises on your spacecraft, and upon return to Earth you start stretching, bursting into flame, become invisible, or turn into a pile of muscular orange bricks.
Almost like this case, certainly very comparable to it, and in a way, even more absurd...
I once read a short story about an ordinary Joe who bore too much resemblance to a famous actor. The actor didn't want any 'unauthorized copies' out there, so he sued the guy and forced him to have plastic surgery to change his appearance.
If Bill Wyman (from birth) loses this one, how long until the science fiction story becomes true? Given the absurdity running rampant through the US legal system, I wouldn't bet against it.
You really want server-side filtering. I do that on my IMAP server with procmail, though not Bayesian. A quick google with "procmail bayesian filter" turns up quite a bit of interesting stuff to sift through. Of course if it's not your IMAP server, you're back to client-side solutions.
If we want to decide that riders and the like are problems, then we need to attack those problems. Adding a line-item veto is trying to take the cheap way out, and treat the symptoms rather than the underlying problem.
Maybe all we really need is some good reporting, someone who can read these bills and show the pork. Then again, we all have to remember that one Congressman's pork is another's home state livelihood. Really, that's how the pork all gets in there in the first place.
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Thank you. I swear the other responses seem to have taken me seriously.
But if I take your response and treat it seriously, wouldn't most of Hollywood's output fail copyright and DMCA standards? I'd argue that my life is more interesting than at least some of the stuff coming out of Hollywood.
This topic is timely, because I'm spec'ing out a new computer for the family for Christmas. In these dog days of the economy (national, local, and mine) I'm trying to keep the entry cost down. Besides, it will give me the chance to add parts over the next year or two.
Someday DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2 will be worthy targets for purchase. But today, only the Radeon 9700 is there, and I'm not spending that kind of money. So near term, the target is Doom3.
My price target is around $60, since I plan to replace it in a year or two when R300/NV30 features become affordable. ($150-range) But I don't want to wait until then before playing Doom3.
The Radeon 8500 cards are all above my range, so...
Some Radeon 9000 cards are in my range.
Some Radeon 8500LE cards are in my range.
Will these new drivers work for these cards?
Will these cards (9000, 8500LE) play Doom3?
My backup plan has been a GeForce4MX-440, which is supposed to play Doom3 with reduced features and speed - not a preferred card.
Or at the very least, a violation of the DMCA?
Protect your life disk with CSS and use the DMCA to per^H^Hrosecute the living daylights out of anyone who accesses it without your authorization.
Simple.
Add Jack Valenti and what's-her-name from the RIAA, and it's a deal.
Feel free to add your own nominations for the Launch Pad Party.
No, but it sounds good to me.
So what's the new geek sport?
I once heard something about someone wanting to try using one of those NASA solar-powered airplanes as a relay point. It's high enough up to be "equivalent" to a satellite and is able to fly in circles and act "geostationary". But at the same time, it's a lot lower, so the latency wouldn't be a problem. It sounds like an interesting compromise - scalable, too. (More bandwidth => more planes => more collision-avoidance algorithms)
The IRS? Wouldn't this be a good one in tracking down tax evaders.
Ordinary law enforcement? Obviously someone with any sort of transaction at a known head-shop must be handling illegal drugs.
Deranged crackers? After all, it's aggregated data, and could be useful for stalking, or other purposes.
Terrorist crackers? Find themselves, learn how they were found. Teach the next batch how to avoid those mistakes.
Collecting the data is bad enough. Creating this aggregate is even more dangerous. Making use of it for other than protection from terrorists seems to me to be downright unconstitional. Some would argue that the whole thing is. OTOH, now that it exists we're unlikely to be able to find out how extensive it is, or what uses are being made of it, terrorism related or not.
I don't think that's what got Prohibition repealed. It was more the way Prohibition got in the way of ordinary voting folks. Though at some point, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Mafia involvement, but it depends on how much money can be made by breaking the DMCA. At the moment, media piracy is a widespread, but low-level activity with few pinch points that can be made lucrative.
I fear that what it's really going to take is something like the following scenario:
1: The tech sector to begin climbing out of its funk.
2: Then we get hit by mandated DRM, and re-slump.
3: The rest of the economy follows into a double-dip.
4: *Somehow* we manage to place the blame for the second dip squarely on the DMCA and DRM.
#4 is the shakiest part.
It's got to get a lot worse.
Compare the DMCA to Prohibition.
Maybe we should study Prohibition and its repeal to learn more about how to proceed on the DMCA.
They can say that, and at the same time stiff the artists like Stan Lee by claiming that they make no profit.
Or they lobby for copyright extension after extension so they can continue selling goods with no further IP investment.
Sounds to me like they're saying that consumers can't have a free lunch, only corporate media.
>I've also learned that the business people know as little as the rest of us about where things are going. Thir guesses are never right. They might make some
>good guesses about what market will do well, but its almost always for the wrong reasons.
If this is true, then why do they get paid so much? Whenever there is a gripe about excessive executive compensation, they're decried as Socialists. Well, I'm going to gripe about excessive executive compensation, because they're just not doing a good enough job to earn the high pay they're getting. If the "Captains of Industry" were really doing 7 and 8 figure jobs, the economy would be in better shape than it is. They wouldn't have been fooled by the dot-com bubble and wouldn't have landed us in the dot-com bust. They already keep an eye on their peers, and they should have forseen the current corporate accounting mess, and perhaps headed it off, or at least reduced its impact.
Am I asking for a lot? Yes. But then, 7 or 8 figures is a lot of pay. They should earn it. Instead they screw up, leaving people like us holding the bag.
I guess you missed the implied smiley.
Don't forget that this is on a processor with NetBurst Architecture, so it makes the Internet faster. Now with NetBurst AND HyperThread those web pages will be on your screen before you've clicked the button.
So pretend $1.77e8/quarter is a continuing loss rate. (I know it most likely isn't.)
With their $4e10 war chest they can subsidize the X box at this rate for about 56 1/2 years. I wonder if the copyright on Steamboat Willie will have expired by then.
Not me. I recognize that my 401K is a long-term thing, and I don't mess with it. Sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down. But in the long run, I seem to make out about the same as or slightly better than coworkers who constantly tweak theirs.
So you may not be talking about 401K owners themselves, but rather the folks who run the 401K for the companies - essentially more of the short-term thinkers we disparage.
Yes, the scene was from "Shada."
I have VHS of both "The 5 Doctors" and "Shada". The "Shada" release I have wasn't part of any fancy souvenier set, just a tape. It appears to have the film they had, plus Tom Baker narrating through the missing parts.
You know, I might well, too.
After all, these are the days of corporate accounting fiascos. In the current clime, transparency is a thing to be admired, and this is about as transparent as you can get.
Feature it, it's the timely thing to do, as well as the right thing to do.
For that matter, Microsoft doesn't have much room to cast stones, and if transparency becomes an issue, one can always bring up their stock dilution through options, non-payment of dividends that stockholders are requesting while sitting on $40e9 of cash, and sometimes-questionable donations to charity that look like they generate more revenue than the donation.
The article doesn't mention anything about the secondary emission characteristics of this fabric.
Secondary emissions are a very real bane of shielding for interplanetary travel, due to the extremely high energies of cosmic rays. Even if you could launch lead shielding for a spacecraft, manageable thicknesses would cause secondary emissions that were even more dangerous to the occupants than the original cosmic rays.
They've tried a new type of radiation shielding on the ISS made of polyethylene that is supposed to block without creating secondaries, and I see that's part of this fabric. Unfortunately the new shields don't seem to be as effective as hoped.
Radiation is anticipated to be a big problem on a Mars mission. IIRC, the radiation exposure will have a cancer risk equivalent to a lifetime of smoking.
But you really know to be scared of cosmic rays if they make rapping noises on your spacecraft, and upon return to Earth you start stretching, bursting into flame, become invisible, or turn into a pile of muscular orange bricks.
Almost like this case, certainly very comparable to it, and in a way, even more absurd...
I once read a short story about an ordinary Joe who bore too much resemblance to a famous actor. The actor didn't want any 'unauthorized copies' out there, so he sued the guy and forced him to have plastic surgery to change his appearance.
If Bill Wyman (from birth) loses this one, how long until the science fiction story becomes true? Given the absurdity running rampant through the US legal system, I wouldn't bet against it.
You really want server-side filtering. I do that on my IMAP server with procmail, though not Bayesian. A quick google with "procmail bayesian filter" turns up quite a bit of interesting stuff to sift through. Of course if it's not your IMAP server, you're back to client-side solutions.
If we want to decide that riders and the like are problems, then we need to attack those problems. Adding a line-item veto is trying to take the cheap way out, and treat the symptoms rather than the underlying problem.
Maybe all we really need is some good reporting, someone who can read these bills and show the pork. Then again, we all have to remember that one Congressman's pork is another's home state livelihood. Really, that's how the pork all gets in there in the first place.
Then they could hire Peter Graves to advertise these things, reprising Mr. Phelps.
How about backup tapes that expire this way, too?